Does anyone have any current information on whether Swiss will joing OneWorld or not?
Thanks!
lavasushi
May 4, 2002 8:33 am
They've begun codesharing with American but have not entered oneworld. I read that the reason was that British Airways would be too competitive with SWISS for them to join oneworld. We'll see...
number_6
May 4, 2002 12:40 pm
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by lavasushi: They've begun codesharing with American but have not entered oneworld. I read that the reason was that British Airways would be too competitive with SWISS for them to join oneworld. We'll see...</font>
BA has blackball rights (all the founding OneWorld airlines do). Hard to believe that BA is afraid of Swiss as a competitor, and presumably Swiss would have to bring its fares into line with BA if it joined OneWorld. Maybe better for us if it doesn't join -- but hard to see how it can survive; the old Swissair was too small and tried to grow to survive (which killed it), now it is half the size and with little slack.
